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" To change just because of change, that is not my idea at all. "

Hubert de Givenchy

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" It is important to work. It is important for my mind. "

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" You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself. "

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" Balenciaga was my religion. Since I'm a believer, for me, there's Balenciaga, and the good Lord. "

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" Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities. "

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